By Gary Kraght
Well, we dodged a bullet. The day before the Indian Valley event, it rained about two inches. But Sunday, May 5, was clear and sunny, if a bit on the cold side. Around 140 orienteers came out to enjoy the wildflowers and wildlife, and the revised map prepared by Bill Cusworth. For oldtimers, it was their first chance to orienteer at Indian Valley in eight years. Some things were radically different, mostly about the Indian Valley College campus, which has been completely reconstructed, while other things remained maddeningly familiar, such as the steep gullies.
The course setter, Petra Sundstrom, designed courses that avoided nasty climb, and allowed for fast running on some legs. As a result, a number of participants went out on two courses, and one finished three! Unfortunately, the E-punch unit from the final control on all the courses was stolen very soon after being set up, but it was quickly replaced after the first finisher reported it missing. Course setting was a family affair, as Petra had help from her husband Olof, her children, and even her parents visiting from Sweden.
We had wonderful cooperation from the College of Marin in making the event happen. I worked with Sarah Paoli, who navigated me through the permit process and recommended the best location to set up registration. She was on campus during the event, and enjoyed watching all of the orienteers running in various directions. We will be welcomed back next year!
I was initially worried about having enough volunteer help for the event, as Marin County doesn’t have many BAOC members. But almost everyone I contacted readily agreed to help. And then more volunteers, unsolicited, began popping up. In the end, I actually had to turn down offers of help! So a heartfelt thank-you, everyone. The volunteer honor roll is:
- Set Up: Olga Kraght, Johanna Merriss, Goktug Coban, Petra Sundstrom
- Starts: Goktug Coban, Rahel Schneider, Mattias Vangbo, Mattias’s wife
- E-punch: Jeff Lanam, Olga Kraght
- Registration: Sarah Williams, Steve Haas, Dennis Wildfogel
- Beginner Clinics: Scott Aster
- Control Pickup: Bill Cusworth, Tom De Vre, Theo Verhoeven, Steve Gregg, Steve O’Keefe, Olga Kraght
- Takedown/Cleanup: Rex Winterbottom, Eric Rosenzweig, Olga Kraght
- Mapping: Bill Cusworth
- Course Setting: Petra Sundstrom
- Course Vetting: Olof Sundstrom, Petra’s children and parents, Gary Kraght, Olga Kraght
- College of Marin Liaison: Sarah Paoli
- BAOC Website Support: Chuck Spalding
Apologies to anyone I may have inadvertently missed.
White Course (2.6 km, 90 m climb, 10 controls)
Time Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Atle Sundstrom BAOC 27:19 3:06
2 Anna Tavakolian 28:23 1:04 7:03
3 Tanya Yatsunenko, Torsten Grimm 31:17 3:58 4:27
4 Danila & Sergey Evseev 31:25 4:06 1:28
5 Andrey & Lucas Boytsov 38:53 11:34 6:34
6 Clara Staats, Keira Lewis BAOC 41:32 14:13 10:43
7 Beatrice Schreibstein OCIN 41:46 14:27 8:52
8 Nicolo Porcu 44:13 16:54 3:06
9 Elena Pierpaoli 44:18 16:59 2:47
10 Trisha & Lex McIlray 46:00 18:41 4:35
11 Ningshan Shaag 49:52 22:33 7:13
12 Linnea & Trinka Widerstrom BAOC 59:21 32:02 7:47
13 Linus Jacobsson 1:10:21 43:02 6:59
14 Ellery Walsh COC 1:55:00 87:41 19:03
Betty & Kadin Kisling DNF
Team Afanzar 1 DNF
Yellow Course (2.9 km, 120 m climb, 10 controls)
Time Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Tanya Yatsunenko 32:48 2:43 (2nd course)
2 Peter Gao 41:29 8:41 5:13
3 Scott Astor BAOC 46:58 14:10 6:25
4 Tove Jacobsson, Marcus 51:47 18:59 8:26
5 Kat Hill, Oren Stoelting 53:01 20:13 7:32
6 Milo's Group BAOC 1:12:17 39:29 9:56
7 Sahen Rai, Ian Brito, Stella Dai 1:16:27 43:39 19:26
8 Rucha Bedakkak 1:21:57 49:09 28:46
9 Ningshan Shaag 1:24:05 51:17 22:58 (2nd course)
10 Nils Widerstrom BAOC 1:25:22 52:34 39:09
11 Wesley Line 1:35:22 62:34 32:13
12 Drew & Michael Troop 236 2:15:03 102:15 63:08
13 Nancy Lindeman BAOC 3:08:05 155:17 38:36
Amelia Larocca CHSOC MSP
Anna Tavakolian BAOC MSP (2nd course)
Rex Vokey MSP
Dana & Mike Wilcox DNF
Janet Coyne DNF
Steve O'Keefe DNF
Orange Course (4.2 km, 185 m climb, 12 controls)
Time Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Otto & Karin Jacobsson Dipsea Kids 45:48 3:54
2 Tanya Yatsunenko BAOC 56:57 11:09 5:58 (3rd course)
3 Thor Sundstrom BAOC 1:08:08 22:20 8:22
4 Fanny Jacobsson 1:21:26 35:38 23:13
5 Peter Gao 1:22:20 36:32 8:30 (2nd course)
6 Timon Sloane BAOC 1:31:55 46:07 10:51
7 Neva Mellow CHSOC 1:40:58 55:10 25:47
8 Susan Tischler 1:48:18 62:30 15:27
9 Kendall Bagley 1:52:35 66:47 17:11
10 Nicolo Porcu 2:07:43 81:55 30:02 (2nd course)
11 Elena Pierpaoli 2:07:44 81:56 19:09 (2nd course)
12 Louise Madrid BAOC 2:14:19 88:31 25:49
13 Team Afanzar 2 2:25:32 99:44 56:22
Kendall & Olivia Bagley DNF
Brown Course (3.7 km, 190 m climb, 12 controls)
Time Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Jeffrey Kabel BAOC 46:42 11:23 (2nd course)
2 Jason Reed 53:40 6:58 7:40
3 Chuck Spalding BAOC 57:48 11:06 7:24
4 Woody Szydlik 59:19 12:37 17:52
5 Dennis Wildfogel BAOC 1:05:08 18:26 10:17
6 Stephen Haas BAOC 1:14:41 27:59 17:19
7 Hui Shi 1:15:13 28:31 10:31
8 Neville Fernandes 1:19:06 32:24 15:28
9 Taelyn Ailes CHSOC 1:20:21 33:39 15:03
10 Johanna Merriss BAOC 1:22:47 36:05 18:48
11 Evan Custer BAOC 1:23:37 36:55 10:30
12 Joseph Geddes BAOC 1:31:36 44:54 15:35
13 Jason Szydlik 1:35:27 48:45 30:11
14 Eric LeVesque Fairfield JROTC 1:40:57 54:15 15:51
15 Steve Tischler 1:59:19 72:37 34:27
16 Anna Maria Boiarynova 2:15:41 88:59 37:26
17 Tom & Judy Cronin 2:16:45 90:03 20:21
18 Shengye Wang BAOC 2:25:33 98:51 42:48
Rishi & Tharu BAOC DNF
Emmett Elvey BAOC DNS
Hailey Hinkle BAOC DNS
Jeff Lanam BAOC DNS
Matt Arikel CSOC DNS
Owen Paige BAOC DNS
Wyatt Lin BAOC DNS
Green Course (4.4 km, 260 m climb, 14 controls)
Time Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Evgeny Kachanovskiy 50:29 0:00
2 Matt Marlow 55:24 4:55 2:37
3 Oriana Riley DVOA 56:48 6:19 3:49
4 Steve Gregg BAOC 58:56 8:27 2:57
5 Tapio Karras BAOC 1:02:20 11:51 6:50
6 Tac Sugiyama BAOC 1:05:05 14:36 2:50
7 Rahel Schneider BAOC 1:05:18 14:49 2:28
8 Goktug Coban BAOC 1:09:39 19:10 10:30
9 Eric Rosenzweig BAOC 1:10:10 19:41 6:31
10 Matthias Kohler BAOC 1:13:30 23:01 7:45
11 Darya Titkina 1:13:57 23:28 12:10
12 Marie-Josée Parayre BAOC 1:17:13 26:44 8:53
13 Jeff Street BAOC 1:28:11 37:42 21:02
14 Toby Street BAOC 1:33:07 42:38 18:03
15 Team Katie BAOC 1:33:47 43:18 8:33
16 Ronny Ward CHSOC 1:38:12 47:43 26:19
17 Olga Boiarynova UKR 1:53:45 63:16 29:27
Sebastian Duesterhoeft DNF
Red Course (5.6 km, 235 m climb, 12 controls)
Time Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Mattias Vangbo BAOC 1:03:58 2:30
2 Nikolay Chukanov BAOC 1:04:23 0:25 5:37
3 Vladimir Gusiatnikov OCIN 1:05:24 1:26 1:26
4 Graham Brew BAOC 1:08:47 4:49 5:40
5 Misha Kreslavsky BAOC 1:10:39 6:41 2:07
6 Theo Verhoeven BAOC 1:31:10 27:12 6:31
7 Jerry Skirvin CHSOC 1:54:52 50:54 10:00
8 Gretchen LeFever, Tina Taxler 3:38:13 154:15 41:46
Blue Course (6.8 km, 290 m climb, 13 controls)
Time Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Carl Hoel 55:10 0:00
Olof Sundstrom BAOC 1:03:10 8:00 3:21 (unofficial, vetter)
2 François Léonard BAOC 1:11:45 16:35 6:56
3 Lubomir Sebo BAOC 1:12:15 17:05 4:58
4 Wayne Staats BAOC 1:12:33 17:23 4:35
5 Ouri Karni BAOC 1:13:26 18:16 5:58
6 Rex Winterbottom BAOC 1:18:12 23:02 9:42
7 Liubov Pitko 1:29:28 34:18 5:01
8 Jeffrey Kabel BAOC 1:31:51 36:41 5:44
9 Tom De Vre BAOC 1:34:34 39:24 8:02
10 Weichun Fong BAOC 1:35:25 40:15 13:16
11 Patrick Carvalno BAOC 1:43:41 48:31 6:48
12 Noah Bean CHSOC 1:48:47 53:37 12:06
13 Carl Walsh 1:57:27 62:17 23:32
14 Kostia Turcheniuk 2:08:40 73:30 18:44
15 Gavin Wyatt-Mair BAOC 2:18:26 83:16 13:48
Nikolay Makhnenko DNF
DNF
= Did not finish (one or more controls
missed)
DNS
= Did not start
DSQ
= Disqualified
MSP
= Mispunched (one or more incorrect
controls)
OVT
= Overtime
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